wardrobe malfunctionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

An Americanism, coined by singer Justin Timberlake in 2004 to describe the incident during Super Bowl XXXVIII in which singer Janet Jackson's right breast was bared.

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名詞

wardrobe malfunction (plural wardrobe malfunctions)

1. (euphemistic) An accidental counterpart of indecent exposure caused by a fault in someone's clothing (especially that of a performer) or by an error made while changing clothes.

   Hyponym: nip slip

   • 2007 September 4, Kathleen McElroy, “But Wait! Djokovic Is Still Playing”, in New York Times Straight Sets‎, retrieved 17 April 2021:

     Monaco, a 23-year-old Argentinian seeded No. 23, survived the most unlikely wardrobe malfunction to save a match point and win a third-set tiebreaker, 8-6.

使用する際の注意点

• The regions of the body within the scope of such a "malfunction" usually refer its erogenous regions. Sometimes more specific terms are used, such as nip slip.

派生語

参考

• Nipplegate